Liberalism

Robin Yassin-Kassab is unsure about his liberal identity, Andrew Brown performs an autopsy on liberalism, Azeem Ibrahim defends liberal polity, Richard Wood examines the roots of American ‘liberal democracy’, Zora Hesová and Tereza Hendl ask whatever happened to the liberal legacy of Vaclav Havel, Abdullah Erikat desires to be himself, Boyd Tonkin observes the liberalism of Amartya Sen, Maryam al-Mahammad looks at Syria through the liberal lens, James Brooks takes down the professional managerial class, Ghazal Tipu builds a female-only mosque, John Lietchy takes a poetic walk through a remarkably illiberal period, Bruce Lawrence dissects the difference between ‘Islam-after’ and ‘Islam-in’ liberalism, and our list of ten undesirable consequences of liberalism.

In this issue

  • Death by Weber
    Philosophy

    Ten Consequences of Liberalism

    Even ideas with the purest of motivations will, inevitably, lead to a few unsavoury consequences. Liberalism is no exception. Given it has no single…

  • The Capitol
    Philosophy

    The End of Something

    In 1992, American liberal thinker and academic Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man. The book gained instant notoriety; the…

    John Liechty
  • The John Locke
    Politics

    Liberalism: An Autopsy

    Around the beginning of this century, I started to worry about the Timothy Garton Ash (TGA) problem. Tim (as he then was; the name lengthened with…

    Andrew Brown
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